SHILL Issue 80

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DeGods is the #1 NFT project on Solana. But did you
know they initially failed so bad that the founder @
frankdegods was receiving death threats? Here’s the
greatest NFT comeback story:
It wasn’t just clown emojis though. Frank was receiving
death threats. “Right after mint we didn’t have the
marketplace ready, so everybody hated me and my
team. They were sending me death threats on Discord.”
- @frankdegods
Two days later the DeGods marketplace launched. But
it was filled with bugs. Which resulted in some people
losing their DeGods or their $SOL. This marked a turning
point for DeGods...
DeGods was the most hyped mint of October 2021.
So hyped that it minted out in under 10 seconds. But,
there was a problem.
The people who minted a DeGod had no way of selling
it. See, Frank & his team were building their own marketplace
for DeGods. But it wasn’t ready yet.
They were no longer the most hyped Solana NFT project.
People had lost faith in the team. DeGods were
once again, the underdogs.
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And people were pissed. They thought they just got
rugged. Any time Frank would type in the Discord it
would be spammed with clown emojis.
Frank @frankdegods
Feels good being the underdogs again.
Frank needed to win back the community. So, he
started by refunding everyone who lost money on the
DeGods marketplace. And he reassured people that
the team is still building. Then Frank did something
nobody expected.
He hired the biggest DeGod fudders. “We basically
made a decision at the end of December, to take all top
10 of our fudders and hire them as mods” - @frankdegods
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